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COVID-19, social distancing, remote work and transport choice
Crowley, Frank; Daly, Hannah; Doran, Justin; Ryan, Geraldine - 2020
Since late 2019, COVID-19 has devastated the global economy, with indirect implications for the environment. As governments' prioritized health and implemented measures such as isolation, the closure of non-essential businesses and social distancing, many workers lost their jobs, were...
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Resilience to health shocks and the spatial extent of local labour markets : evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy
Borsati, Mattia; Cascarano, Michele; Percoco, Marco - 2020
activities also exhibits dense networks of commuting flows. In this article, we empirically investigate the relationship between … the spatial extent of local labour markets, as defined by the structure of the commuting network, and the diffusion of … COVID-19. To this end, we compute, for each municipality, the intensive and extensive margins of commuting flows and we …
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Questioning the spatial association between the spread of COVID-19 and transit usage in Italy
Borsati, Mattia; Nocera, Silvio; Percoco, Marco - 2020
excess mortality in Italy attributable to the spread of COVID-19. We found that places characterised by larger commuting …
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Beyond lost earnings : the long-term impact of jobdisplacement on workers' commuting behavior
Duan, Yige; Jost, Oskar; Jost, Ramona - 2022
We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo …-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and … commuting time. Using German employee-employer matched data and an event study design, we identify the causal effect of job loss …
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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The problem of false positives in automated census linking: evidence from nineteenth-century New York's Irish immigrants
Anbinder, Tyler; Connor, Dylan; Ó Gráda, Cormac; … - 2021
Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particularly bad at tracking immigrants? Using nineteenth-century Irish immigrants as a test case, we...
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Job loss and COVID-19 : do remote work, automation and tasks at work matter?
Livanos, Ilias; Ravanos, Panagiotis - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have adverse and non-uniform impacts on future employment prospects for different job positions in the EU. We investigate two possible determinants of the variation of future employment loss due to the pandemic: the potential of a job to be carried out 'from...
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Covid-19, family stress and domestic violence : remote work, isolation and bargaining power
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Haddad, Joanne; … - 2020
We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, the Canadian Perspective Survey Series, which allows us to investigate the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find...
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The impact of Covid-19 restrictions on workers: who is most exposed?
Crowley, Frank; Doran, Justin; Ryan, Geraldine - 2020
The coronavirus is severely disrupting labour markets. Businesses that rely on face-to-face communication or close …
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